{"id":948546,"date":"2026-05-09T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/948546\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:21:15","slug":"met-office-latest-forecast-as-greater-manchester-hit-by-booming-thunderstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/948546\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Office latest forecast as Greater Manchester hit by booming thunderstorm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some residents have reported water ‘pouring into’ their homes<\/p>\n

The Met Office weather map for Saturday afternoon<\/p>\n

Further heavy rain is expected after parts of Greater Manchester were hit by a dramatic thunderstorm this afternoon (Saturday).<\/p>\n

Many areas saw booming cracks of thunder and flashes of lightning before a short torrential downpour. “WOW. KABOOM,” said local forecaster Oldham<\/a> Weather<\/a> in a post on X.<\/p>\n

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Others responded by sharing videos of the conditions which suddenly took over.<\/p>\n

One person said: “Wow careful what you wish for! That lightning was only a mile away. So loud. I know I said I needed rain, but that was so heavy it has poured INTO the house upstairs & down through the window lintels! Nothing I could do to stop it.”<\/p>\n

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More raiin is forecast to fall for the rest of the day by the Met Office.<\/p>\n

Light showers are expected until around 3pm when some there is a high chance of some heavier downpours. There could remain some drizzle around until around 7pm when the wet weather is expected to clear up.<\/p>\n

It is expected to be a dry and sunny start to Sunday and remain dry, if a little overcast, with temperatures reaching 12C. It is a similar picture on Monday and Tuesday with further rain not likely until Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some residents have reported water ‘pouring into’ their homes The Met Office weather map for Saturday afternoon Further…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,2768,2769,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-948546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-manchester-weather","13":"tag-the-met-office","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116545303560701759","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}